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I understand why these get posted. But not everyone is in the same situation as the author.

I can bike to work, I'm extroverted, and I like free coffee. So I go into the office 2-3 days a week by choice. I have no on-site requirement. I also get quite depressed in winter working in my cold basement office with a space heater :(

But that's just me. And I don't feel like I should force my WFH opinion on anyone else.

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On the flip side, if I was required to be in an office for any job, I would not be working in this industry because the only jobs in my area are paying literally $10/hr for this work and it's mostly just building brochure sites on Wordpress.

Being able to even go to an office is a luxury for a LOT of people.

"But Josh, move to a place that has jobs, duh!" Yeah, I highly doubt any place in this world is willing to not only pay to relocate me, but also my ex-wife and her family because I can promise you no job in this world is worth giving up my child for.

> But that's just me. And I don't feel like I should force my WFH opinion on anyone else.

The problem is that company management often does force their WFH opinion on everyone else.

I feel you on the winter thing. I added an electric heater to my office so I can keep the temperatures a bit higher than the rest of the house (mostly I do this for my fingers, honestly). And through the magic of LEDs I have a fairly ridiculous amount of light I can turn on. Makes winter more bearable when I can make it as bright as high noon in July.

I totally get wanting to go into the office. I would go in a few days a week if they hadn't put our new office 20 miles away. Not close to where anybody lives, but it's in the trendy part of downtown.

My fingers get SO cold. Literally to the point I'm about to wear gloves.

Every couple hours I'll thaw them out against the space heater..

Any other hacks for this are welcome. Exercises?

> My fingers get SO cold.

Raynaud’s or other similar condition?

My only other method for dealing with it is alternate ways of getting warmer. When I don't want to turn the space heater on, sometimes I'll fill up a hot water bottle and put it under my feet. Warming the blood up there is reasonably effective at warming up my whole body and thus my fingers.

Maybe a heated desk pad, or some other kind of keyboard heater?

Maybe something like this: https://infrarot-fussboden.de/220-Pro-Infrared-Desk-Heater

Heated desk pads are great, cheap and low-profile.

Maybe there is a cheaper alternative as effective and comfortable, but I can only vouch for these:

https://thewritersglove.com/

When I got gloves too small their support was quick to help too.

Navigating again to their site they now have some sort of LED heater?

I even went to the library when studying for exams in college even though I didn't have to. I consider myself introvert, but I just like the physical separation of work and leisure. And I have a beautiful commute by bike.

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